MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is missing.

[potato29]

Object spotted by Chinese satellite in Indian Ocean in search for missing MH370

March 22, 2014 8:05PM

CHINESE satellites have captured new images of floating debris in the southern Indian Ocean off Perth and ships are on their way to the location.

The debris is about 22.5 metres long and 13 metres wide.

The images were taken on Tuesday, March 18 — two days after the first images were captured by commercial satellites and about 120km further south west.

http://www.news.com.au/world/object...nes-flight-mh370/story-fndir2ev-1226862210764

 

[Sinkie]

Re: Object spotted by Chinese satellite in Indian Ocean in search for missing MH370

How the debris can still float after 2 weeks in rough waters is beyond belief.

 

[virus]

Re: Object spotted by Chinese satellite in Indian Ocean in search for missing MH370

how jin da fong neber got killed yet in ye shi i also dun believe.

 

[eatshitndie]

Re: Object spotted by Chinese satellite in Indian Ocean in search for missing MH370

How the debris can still float after 2 weeks in rough waters is beyond belief.

the large piece is not floating on the surface but submerged several hundred meters deep, but not totally at the bottom. it moves with the current below the surface. there may be air trapped in water-tight compartments in the debris or air trapped underneath exposed sections. the overall buoyancy including air frame, steel, titanium, perhaps intact oil or hydraulic tanks, pipes, and trapped air allows it to float underwater.

 

[eatshitndie]

everyone is on it now. :p including prc satellites moving to the area.

this post was made on 19-03-2014, 11:00 pm sbf time. you can track all sat movements, sorry location in space, on a weblink. not kidding.

 

[eatshitndie]

this is the mil sat link...it's my hobby.

http://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=30

you can also track civilian and commercial sats at this site.

 

[Sinkie]

this is the mil sat link...it's my hobby.

http://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=30

you can also track civilian and commercial sats at this site.

Why you so free? Did you participate in the digitalglobe crowdsourcing project?

 

[steffychun]

Why you so free? Did you participate in the digitalglobe crowdsourcing project?

calm down dear.

 

[eatshitndie]

Why you so free? Did you participate in the digitalglobe crowdsourcing project?

i worked in several sat projects in my past lives. everything from leo to meo to geo. it's just a hobby to keep up with current technology and events. by the way, notice the time stamps i put up earlier on prc sat post? they were already scouring the area days before the aussie's jiang jin tou. they took the cue from a u.s. mil sat as early as sunday. :p

 

[Sinkie]

calm down dear.

It's a compliment.........Well, I dun hv the time to track satellites. If I've, I'll gaze at the stars, not the other way round.

 

[GoldenPeriod]

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/

Wah I found xue long icebreaker moving towards the area right now in South Indian Ocean.

 

[eatshitndie]

if prc name their mil sats "yaogan", will sg name theirs "horgaogan?"

 

[eatshitndie]

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/

Wah I found xue long icebreaker moving towards the area right now in South Indian Ocean.

perth will have many visitors going forward, including victims' families.

 

[GoldenPeriod]

Perth is indeed very busy now...

Two Chinese Ilyushin IL-76s aircraft spotted on the tarmac at RAAF Pearce base near Perth.

 

[makapaaa]

[h=1]MAS chief confirms investigators chasing MH370 pilot’s cockpit phone call[/h] <cite class="byline vcard">The Malay Mail Online – <abbr title="2014-03-21T13:01:00Z">17 hours ago</abbr></cite>

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• The phone call that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah made from the cockpit before Flight …

SEPANG, March 21 — An international investigation has started on a phone call made from the cockpit of the Malaysia Airlines aircraft by its pilot before Flight MH370 took off on March 8, Malaysia Airlines chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said today.

Citing unnamed sources, UK tabloid The Sun reported an international team is trying to find the identity of person who had conversed over the phone with Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah from the cockpit scant minutes before Flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) at 12.41am, two weeks ago.

The police had been ordered to dig deeper into the backgrounds of the 12 crew and 227 passengers after Malaysian authorities confirmed that the flight’s communications had been deliberately disabled before the Boeing 777-200ER swerved left from its eastward route to Beijing.

On March 15, the police had searched Zaharie’s and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid’s houses, where they had recovered a self-built flight simulator, among other items, from the former’s home.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters that an examination of the flight simulator revealed that it contained three aviation programmes — Flight Simulator X, Flight Simulator IX, and X-flight 10.
The two “Flight Simulator” titles are published by Microsoft and marketed to the public.

During the press conference yesterday, Khalid also revealed that the data logs of all three games were wiped out on February 3.

Malaysia has sent the home-made flight simulator to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US to retrieve and analyse the deleted data.

On Wednesday, acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein reminded the public that all 239 people on board MH370 remain innocent until proven guilty.

Malaysia law enforcement officials previously informed the US counterparts that nothing suspicious was found on the personal computers of Zaharie and Fariq.

Today, Hishammuddin said foreign intelligence agencies have cleared all passengers aboard the Beijing-bound plane of any suspicion of terror activities.

 

[neddy]

perth will have many visitors going forward, including victims' families.

Xuelong is fast. They were at Fremantle port this morning.

I will set up my hotdog stand for the plane-spotters tomorrow.

RSAF 130 sqn is at RAAF Pearce as well, why are they so quiet?


MH370 search: Chinese plane lands at wrong airport in Australia
As the number of search vehicles and nationalities increases, so too do the challenges
22 Mar 15:30 pm IST

Perth, Australia: The first Chinese plane heading to Australia to join the hunt for a missing Malaysia Airlinesjet landed at the wrong airport on Saturday, underscoring the difficulties facing the increasingly complex multinational search effort.

The Chinese IL-76 military aircraft made an unexpected stop at Perth International Airport before heading to its correct destination at RAAF Base Pearce outside Perth, where search and rescue operations for Flight MH370, which has been missing for two weeks, are now being coordinated.

"They landed at Perth and then they landed here," RAAF Corporal Janine Fabre told Reuters. "We don't know why."

RAAF Base Pearce, a dusty collection of runways and low-slung buildings about 35 km (21 miles) north of Perth, is taking on the feel of a model United Nations as aircraft and ships - not to mention journalists - from at least six countries descend on the region.

But as the number of search vehicles and nationalities increases, so too do the challenges including security sensibilities, language and operational and command issues.

 

[neddy]

Cat 1 Cyclone Gillian closing in.

http://www.uknewsday.com/index.php/...ng-mh370-as-a-cyclone-is-forecast-to-hit.html

 

[Huat-Ah]

I doubt the latest debris by china sat image can be found. The call trace till now no news. Damn slow

 

[eatshitndie]

i was too fast to say the p-8 poseidon is the best asset for this search. for such a huge ocean area with no other port or base in sight, the best asset will be a combination of a drone carrier and a bunch of sea based drones, plus sat support. the u.s. have these assets but are putting them on contingency in case russia invade ukraine with her massive forces lined up on the border west of crimea.

 

[YouMakeMyDreams]

China satellite finds object near jet search area

The Associated Press
on March 22, 2014 at 12:03 PM

KUALA LUMPUR — A satellite image released by China on Saturday offered the latest sign that wreckage from a Malaysia Airlines plane lost for more than two weeks could be in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean where planes and ships have been searching for three days.

The image, showing an object 72 feet by 43 feet, was taken around noon Tuesday. The image location was about 75 miles south of where an Australian satellite viewed two objects two days earlier. The larger object was about as long as the one the Chinese satellite detected.

"The news that I just received is that the Chinese ambassador received a satellite image of a floating object in the southern corridor and they will be sending ships to verify," Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters today.

Australian officials said the location was within the 14,000-square-mile area they searched today, but the object was not found. Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Andrea Hayward-Maher said she did not know whether the precise coordinates of the location had been searched, but added that coordinators will use the information to refine the search area.

The authority, which is overseeing the search in the region, said a civil aircraft reported seeing a number of small objects in the search area, including a wooden pallet, but a New Zealand military plane diverted to the location found only clumps of seaweed. The agency said in a statement that searchers would keep trying to determine whether the objects are related to the lost plane.

The latest satellite image is another clue in the baffling search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which dropped off air traffic control screens March 8 over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board.

After about a week of confusion, Malaysian authorities said pings sent by the Boeing 777-200 for several hours after it disappeared indicated that the plane ended up in one of two huge arcs: a northern corridor stretching from Malaysia to Central Asia, or a southern corridor that stretches toward Antarctica.

The discovery of the two objects by the Australian satellite led several countries to send planes and ships to a stretch of the Indian Ocean about 1,550 miles southwest of Australia. But three days of searching have produced no confirmed signs of the plane.

One of the objects spotted in the earlier satellite imagery was described as almost 80 feet in length and the other was 15 feet. The Boeing 777-200 is about 64 meters (209 feet) long with a wingspan of 199 feet and a fuselage about 20 feet in diameter, according to Boeing's website.

In a statement on its website announcing China's find, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense did not explain why it took four days to release the information. But there was a similar delay in the release of the Australian satellite images because experts needed time to examine them.

Two military planes from China arrived today in Perth to join Australian, New Zealand and U.S. aircraft in the search. Japanese planes will arrive Sunday and ships were in the area or on their way.

Even if both satellites detected the same object, it may be unrelated to the plane. One possibility is that it could have fallen off a cargo vessel.

Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, said the currents in the area typically move at about one yard per second but can sometimes move faster.

Based on the typical speed, a current could theoretically move a floating object about 107 miles in two days.

Warren Truss, Australia's acting prime minister while Tony Abbott is abroad, said before the new satellite data was announced that a complete search could take a long time.

"It is a very remote area, but we intend to continue the search until we're absolutely satisfied that further searching would be futile — and that day is not in sight," he said.

"If there's something there to be found, I'm confident that this search effort will locate it," Truss said from the base near Perth that is serving as a staging area for search aircraft.

Aircraft involved in the search include two ultra-long-range commercial jets and four P3 Orions, the maritime safety authority said.

Because the search area is a four-hour flight from land, the Orions can search for about only two hours before they must fly back. The commercial jets can stay for five hours before heading back to the base.

Two merchant ships were in the area, and the HMAS Success, a navy supply ship, had also joined the search.

Hishammuddin, the Malaysian defense minister, said conditions in the southern corridor were challenging.

The area where the objects were identified by the Australian authorities is marked by strong currents and rough seas, and the ocean depth varies between 3,770 feet and 23,000 feet. In addition, Hishammuddin said a low-level warning had been declared for Tropical Cyclone Gillian, although that was north of Australia and closer to Indonesia.

The Chinese planes that arrived in Perth on Saturday were expected to begin searching on Sunday. A small flotilla of ships from China will also join the hunt, along with a refueling vessel that will allow ships to stay in the search area for a long time, Truss said.

The missing plane, which had been bound for Beijing, carried 153 Chinese passengers. In the Chinese capital on Saturday, relatives of the passengers rose up in anger at the end of a brief meeting with Malaysia Airlines and Malaysian government officials.

"You can't leave here! We want to know what the reality is!" they shouted in frustration over what they saw as officials' refusal to answer questions. The relatives gave reporters a statement saying they believe they have been "strung along, kept in the dark and lied to by the Malaysian government."

Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explanation for what happened to the jet, but have said the evidence so far suggests it was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with its communications systems disabled. They are unsure what happened next.

Police are considering the possibilities of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board.

Malaysia asked the U.S. for undersea surveillance equipment to help in the search, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel promised to assess the availability of the technology and its usefulness in the search, Kirby said. The Pentagon says it has spent $2.5 million to operate ships and aircraft in the search and has budgeted another $1.5 million for the efforts.